Ouroboros Status

Ouroboros Status is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Q00 in ouroboros.

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Install Ouroboros Status

Copy Ouroboros Status into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/tree/main/skills/status ~/.claude/skills/status

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/status/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/status
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ouroboros Status does

Ouroboros Status queries an Ouroboros session's state and measures how far execution has drifted from the original seed goal. Use it when an agent or user wants to check session progress or detect goal drift.

Ouroboros Status is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ouroboros Status comes from a repository tagged agent-os, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/ouroboros:ouroboros-status

Check session status and measure goal drift.

Usage

/ouroboros:ouroboros-status [session_id]

Trigger keywords: "am I drifting?", "session status", "drift check"

How It Works

Session Status: Queries the current state of an execution session
Drift Measurement: Measures how far the execution has deviated from the original seed goal

Instructions

When the user invokes this skill:

Load MCP Tools (Required first)

The Ouroboros MCP tools are often registered as deferred tools that must be explicitly loaded before use. You MUST perform this step before proceeding.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Ouroboros Status

What else does Q00 publish alongside Ouroboros Status?
Ouroboros Status is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Q00/ouroboros, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brownfield, Brownfield and Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ouroboros Status does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.
How does Ouroboros Status compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ouroboros Status ranks #475 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ouroboros Status against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.